A Sound of Thunder

A Sound of Thunder (2005)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

4.8/10
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Actors and characters

Release date

2005-05-15

Country

Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Forge, ETIC Films, Franchise Pictures, Baldwin Entertainment Group, Mobius International, ApolloMedia, QI Quality International GmbH Co. KG, Dante Entertainment, Crusader Entertainment, Coco, Film 111, Jericho Productions Ltd., MFF (Sound of Thunder), Matrix Film Finance, Scenario Lane Productions

Genre

Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure, Action

Budget

$80 000 000

Revenue

$11 700 000

Website

http://asoundofthunder.warnerbros.com/

Director

Peter Hyams

Actors

Heike Makatsch, Armin Rohde, David Oyelowo, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Edward Burns, Jemima Rooper, Ben Kingsley, August Zirner, Catherine McCormack, Alvin Van Der Kuech
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Scenario

Producer

Karen Elise Baldwin, Moshe Diamant, Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens, Breck Eisner, Howard Baldwin, Jörg Westerkamp, Romana Cisarova, Rick Nathanson, William J. Immerman

Operator

Peter Hyams

Composer

Nick Glennie-Smith

Artist

Audition

Anja Dihrberg, Jessica Horváthová, Sue Jones

Editing

Sylvie Landra, Reinhild Gräber
All team (129)

• The plot is based on the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury.
• Filming of the picture was completed in 2002. A release was planned for 2003. However, the distributing company went bankrupt and did not have sufficient funds to finish the film.
• Renny Harlin was supposed to direct the film, and Pierce Brosnan was to play the main role. But Harlin removed a key element of the story – a butterfly on one of the characters’ shoes, brought from prehistoric times to the present.
• In 2002, during filming in the Czech Republic, the crew encountered a flood unprecedented in history, paralyzing life throughout much of Europe. The sets, the actors, and even the filming process itself were affected, extending the production timeline considerably.
• The Spota supermarket is named after the director’s wife’s maiden name.
• The owner of the time safari company compares his clients to Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and the like. Among them is one Charles Brubaker, the first to land on Mars. This is a character from Haims’ other film, “Capricorn One” (1977). Charles Brubaker was played by actor James Brolin.
• Reptiles with mammalian characteristics (therapsids) did indeed exist, but became extinct long before the end of the dinosaur era.